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Keith Ren Jan 2011
drown me along
with the pith and wit
that serve me so poorly

even to the letter,
are the words so empty.
phrased fully,

I'm sentenced to nothing.
book me an eternity.

and turn down (the)
volume after volume
after volume...
were it uh gross
Keith Ren Jan 2011
So sits it in the darker settlements;
In the glade,
In the long grass,
My whimsy hides, or is hidden.

With the turning trees still visible,
And the near waters just audible,
I remain graspy-greedy,
And long for lightheartedness
Of sunlight,
Of those connection warms.

And so, with steps imperceptible,
Leaving muddled footprints,
I walk on...
Keith Ren Jan 2011
I am in love with the surface
Where insects walk,
Water and skin.
No more apologies for
The melodies that shine on her forms.
Keith Ren Jan 2011
The family's farewell party's table balloons
were weighted with river stones

I asked a cousin if I might take
one of those stones


and since then

That stone travels daily
in my left pocket


It has, some days, shown itself as an anchor
some, as a tunneled light

Just as my family, this stone is always with me
It is merely a token I can feel,
A remembrance

It is only a fortune
what's felt sometimes eclipses
one's words
Keith Ren Dec 2010
the mannequin ax
and Ptolemy tax
the spiraling hang-sling salutes

the left of the just
and the tackiest rusts
that lazily now pass for roots

don't hit me with nots
the velveteen clots
you want me, i need you, please leave

from chaos i'm born
with an evergreen scorn
may death find me with empty up-sleeves
stop
Keith Ren Dec 2010
too young for Her touch
too young for Her need
she took from me power
at the foot of Her greed

though lovely Her lines were
she passed over bounds
submission desire
was all that i found

a score and half later
only now do i ask
what set Her in motion
this unsavory task

i yearn to know peacefuls
i ache to know sane
though Her unripened taking
is my heart's fruitful bane
this picnic's ruined
Keith Ren Dec 2010
Leave me my rituals
The flesh is an ocean.
The truths are all doorways
As lust is emotion.

The tie-knots are leakers
As passive in search.
My motives are pullers
Leaving me hung in the lurch.

Test me on turnstiles.
Work me on pleads.
I drift only daily.
I want only needs.

Keep safe Your distance.
And I'll keep all my words.
You laid me for power.
And left me for cursed.
nunca mas me molesta
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